With a sitcom, everyday you do a run through, and people are judging you, and the scripts are being changed nightly, nightly, nightly.

I like a certain style of show, I like a certain pace, I like a rhythm, I like a lot of comedy in with my drama.

People have nannies and big cars, and they want to go to Maui for Christmas. When there are those kind of stakes involved, people get ruthless.

Life doesn't tend to fix things or wrap them up in bows.

To me, crazy is not someone who has a creative vision and will fight for it.

When you write for a show that's not yours, your job is to hear the voices of the characters and write as best you can for those voices.

Every pilot I've ever written, I've fallen deeply and madly in love with. It's the only way I work.

TV is all about speed. TV is fast and furious. It's gunslinger territory.

These television shows that have 14 shots of somebody looking at each other with the wind blowing through their hair drive me insane.

If we based everything in Hollywood on who was a nice guy, holy moly, we would have no movies. No actors would work. This is not an industry that is ruled by kindness and generosity.

The whole world is out of time!

…determined to enjoy her luxury of grief uncomforted.

Hatred is self-punishment. Do you think they're feeling bad because you hate them?

Originality is not writing the story that has never been told, but writing the stories only you can tell.

The thing about being a screenwriter, scriptwriter, or scenarist, You get to have multiple personalities and not be charged!

A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark.

It is a fundamental rule of human life, that if the approach is good, the response is good.

It's a more ridiculing, divisive humor today.

You have a very open relationship with your fans." "Yes. We have an open relationship. Obviously they can see other authors if they want, and I can see other readers.

The nature of man is such that people consider themselves put under an obligation as much by the benefits they confer as by those they receive.

Leave me in the night but please don't leave me in the dark